There are more than 3,000 drug courts in the United States, and research has demonstrated that, in some drug courts, African American participants are less likely to graduate than their White counterparts. Quantitative ...

This report reflects the overall level of system of care for the State of Indiana using information both from key stakeholders who rated the entire state and from those who rated their own community. In addition, the level ...

Mental health courts are one means to address the involvement of persons with mental illness in the criminal justice system. Using a sample of 811 participants of a municipal mental health court, this study found that 23.2% ...

Pike, Cathy King; Hudson, Walter W.(For the final version of the article published in the print edition of the journal as cited above, please click on the following doi link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J079v24n01_07 . Access to the original article may require subscription and authorized logon ID/password. IUPUI faculty/staff/students please check University Library resources before purchasing an article. Questions on finding the original article via our databases? Ask a librarian: http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/research/askalibrarian ., 1998)

This paper describes a limitation of using Cronbach's Alpha to estimate reliability when using a sample with homogeneous responses in the measured construct. More specifically, it describes the risk of falsely concluding ...

Social work programs are challenged to provide students with access to foundation and practice level courses and to an array of electives. Full-time, tenure track faculty cannot meet this challenge alone while fulfilling ...

Gentle-Genitty, Carolyn(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2011-04-08)

The exhibit will present a tool developed to teach and learn about theory at the undergraduate or graduate levels. The project presents the SALT model (Strengths, Area of Focus, Limitations, and Theory to redress for ...

Few people engage in planning for life’s end and the prevalence of preparedness is particularly low in ethnic communities. As a profession, social work is well equipped to help increase planning for life’s end and the care ...

We believe the success of applying theory in practice is largely contingent on how students define social work theory, identify the role of theory in practice, and categorize benefits and challenges in applying theory to ...

Integrating physical and behavioral health services has the potential to reduce health disparities and service inequities among persons most at risk. However, clinical social workers in integrated health settings must ...

Overview:
Training plays an important role in the profession of social services to improve the quality of services. Interviewing ten social service providers, data analysis demonstrated that the most important principles ...

One in every 100 US students is truant. Among students ages 14-17, the number of truants is one in 10. In one township in Indiana one in every three students is a chronic truant. No longer is the family the only unit of ...

Perceptions of social bonding in school are essential in reducing school truancy rates. In order to address and mitigate truancy issues, it must first be identified what role schools have traditionally played in regards ...

Introduction
Strengths-based approaches mobilise individual and environmental resources that can facilitate the recovery of people with mental illness. Strengths model case management (SMCM), developed by Rapp and Goscha ...